Made possible with funding from the City of Toronto, Toronto Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, and the Government of Canada. We gratefully acknowledge additional support from Arts in the Parks, Willowdale Central Ratepayers Association, and North York Arts, as well as venue support through TO Live, GWL Realty Advisors, and the Toronto Transit Commission.
Common Ground Dance Festival 2024
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Program NOTES
Risk, rigour, and focus are at play in the space between our three bodies as we move through a series of movements, shapes, and tasks. We continually as ourselves and each other: how slowly can we move?
iii is a living sculpture. As such, we invite you as witnesses to come and go from the work as you choose.
Choreographer: Barbara Simms
Dancers: Barbara Simms, Kiah Francis, Sophia Hassenstein, Simon Mazziotti (original cast member)
Music composition: Toumani Diabate
Costume Design: Brayden Jamil Cairns
This work is steeped in collaboration, and is as much mine as it is the dancers’. Huge thanks also to Kéïta Fournier-Pelletier and Eilish Shin-Culhane for their care as outside eyes and choreographic support for this work.
iii was made possible by the generous support of CreativAction’s Open Space Program, Frog in Hand’s residency programming, and Canada Council for the Arts.
CGDF/TFD Staff team
Festival Director, Co-Host:
David Norsworthy
Festival Producer, Co-Host:
Tanveer Alam
Festival Coordinator, Co-Host:
Chantelle Good
Festival Coordinator:
Bri Clarke
Outreach and Volunteer Coordinator:
Keira Forde
Social Media and Digital Content Coordinator:
Shannon Widdis
Technical Director/Lighting Designer:
Gabriel Cropley
Audio Technicians:
Bertan Kazazic, Franco Pang
TFD Board of DIRECTORS
Cory Boyd, Susan Colbert Wright, Miquelon Rodriguez, Ellis Martin-Wylie, Blessyl Buan, Carmelina Martin, Dianne Oliveira
Special Thanks
Toronto Arts Foundation / Arts In The Parks, Toronto Arts Council, City of Toronto Parks, Forestry and Recreation, Canada Summer Jobs Program, Canadian Heritage, Canada Council for the Arts, TO Live, Willowdale Central Ratepayers Association, and North York Arts.